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Originally Posted by phunk
BTW, our prototype tester told me yesterday he has 400 miles on it now on this track only car between dyno and track testing. Sometime in the last week or two he had it on thunderbolt or thunderhill or something along those lines near NJ and he said he was able to run the car to at 1/4 tank (or maybe he said just below, cant recall) without a single hiccup yet. So he hasnt found a limit of our prototype so far. This track apparently is a mostly right hand track? You guys would know better than me. Either how, he said he used to have a lot of problems on this one. But there is another track that was the biggest problem for the car that he is going to be testing on soon and that should be the final results.
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Thunderbolt and Lightning are the two NJ tracks.
Thunderbolt is all right hand turns except for 2 lefts, the 7, 8, 9 linked corners take you through a 270 degree sweep and is pretty brutal for fuel starve if you have sticky tires.
Thuderbolt Track Map
Lightning is also all right hand turns with 2 lefts thrown in. The tough one here is the 9, 10 combo. It is a lightly banked high speed (90 mph entry, 110 exit) turn called the lightbulb that takes you through 180 degrees. You are 50% throttle after turn-in and then 100% throttle by the time you spot the late apex. You usually get the fuel stave here as you are straightening out the car for the main straight.
Lightning Track Map